Office Depot Wants to Recycle Your Old Computer

IcerLeaf writes "CNN reports that Office Depot will happily recycle one old electronics item per customer, per day, from July 18th through September 6th. Qualifying electronics include computers, monitors, printers, scanners, fax machines, digital cameras, cell phones, and TVs 27" or smaller. Office Depot and Hewlett Packard will be splitting the bill. What's coming out of your basement?"

I thought thats what ebay was for.

[Evildave]

thats where I get rid of all my computer junk.

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TVs 27" or smaller?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can I cut my 36" TV in half?

My old Vax

[IWantMoreSpamPlease]

I mean, now that it's dead and all ;)

Coming out of my basement? Heck...

[march]

What's coming out of my basement? Heck, I'm going to go and stand in front of these stores and try to take the old stuff from people who are going to recycle it so I can add them to my collection!!

I'm still looking for that old atari and timex sinclair... :-)

Re:I thought thats what ebay was for.

[Darth_brooks]

Funny, that's where i get all my computer junk.

hey!!!!

Re:What's coming out of my basement?

[baudilus]

Stop filing Federal Taxes, then ignore their mail and phone calls. Oh, they'll take everything.

Re:TVs 27" or smaller?

[jaraco]

If you cut it in half diagonally, it'll still be a 36". I suggest cutting it vertically.

Considering this this slashdot

[ShieldWolf]

The proper question may be who is coming out the basement.

What I'm getting rid of...

[keybsnbits]

Boy will my girlfriend be happy when I finally get rid of that old flux capacitor I have sitting around. I recently upgraded to a 2.42 gigawatts flux capacitor for my time travels. Thats twice as good as the original! The old one has been rendered useless.

Evil plot by corporations...

[Lodragandraoidh]

Okay - I've got my tinfoil hat squarely on - and tongue in cheek.

It occurs to me that this could be an evil plan to remove older technology from the potential hacking marketplace.

Think about it: everyone throws away their old computers (perfectly suitable as Linux workstations/servers) - forcing people who want to build low cost servers to buy new machines instead.

Taking this further into the realm of the strange, the move to force adoption of DRM technologies would get a boost in the arm from the acquisition of new computers due to the lack of used alternatives... :0

Okay...maybe not... (takes tinfoil hat off and slinks away)

I hoarde this crap..

[JRHelgeson]

Twice a year up in Princeton, Minnesota they have a machine gun shoot (www.tankrides.com). Now, regardless of what your opinion of guns are - pulling off 100 rounds from an M-60, AK-47 or an M-16, I tell you, nothing compares.

I stockpile old computer equipment to take up to the shoot so I can put a few rounds of .50 cal through it.

There's nothing like pulling the trigger on a Barrett 50 cal sniper rifle and watching that old server that gave you years of grief explode.

It's beautiful.

Re:stuff owns us

[AKAImBatman]

I was doing an IP renumbering, and I reset the default route on their web server. I was telnetted in at the time, from another room. [snip] She walked me up to the console, all remaining 50 keys on the keyboard and shattered monitor and everything.

And it was still running! Can't get that type of reliability out of a PC! ;-) I'll bet you could have even hooked a dumb terminal to the serial port and fixed everything without issue.

Bah, kids these days with their "disposable" Windows boxes. Wouldn't know real hardware if it hit them on the head! (Because they'd be unconscious. That shit is heavy!)

Re:stuff owns us

[southpolesammy]

So you replaced a piece of broken hardware with a piece of broken software?

(Sorry, just had to say it....)

Re:broken laser Printers, be gone!

[LetterJ]

I actually don't even have to put a price tag on it or wait until dark. I just haul it into the front yard or near the curb and it's gone within 2 hours. I'm amazed at the crap I've gotten rid of that way. The funny thing is that the people who take it are *always* grinning ear to ear, like they just won the freaking lottery. I figure if I can make someone's day and get rid of it, it's a 2 way win.

Re:My old Vax

[stanmann]

Donate it to a homeless person, they always need someplace warm and sheltered to sleep.

Re:On the inside of Tower Cases and TVs

[foidulus]

Would they mind if I filled my tower computer cases and TV sets insides with other junk I want to get rid of (wood shavings, cat litter, etc...)
It will be like you are giving Office Depot a christmas in July present....of cat feces...
Puts me into the holiday mood!

Re:So the questions flow...

[ptrangerv8]

#4 ???
#5 Profit!!!

I know I know, but it had t obe done, and I'm thinking it jus fit SOOO well in here...

Re:I hate stories like this...

[NanoGator]

"People throwing stuff out when I could use something besides the 1994 era Pentium I have right now."

For $100, I'll send you a P-P-P-Powerbook.

Re:I hoarde this crap..

[poofyhairguy82]

There's nothing like pulling the trigger on a Barrett 50 cal sniper rifle and watching that old server that gave you years of grief explode.

How about the feeling of taking your wholly bitch to Comp. USA afterwards.

When they ask what happened say "Isn't that how you fix computers?"

Re:Leave South Central. You'll thank me later.

[cayenne8]

"In many places, if you live on a busy enough road, especially in a college town, and you leave something on the curb, it's considered a free offering to whomever wants it. Tables, chairs, and couches are often recycled to other students this way."

Hehehe.....and if they ever throw out a big SPOOL....now that's just great coffee/dining room table material. Goes perfect with the orange velour couch you find....

College room decorating at its best. A spool...obnoxious couch...and walls decorated in 'early American rock poster'.

Re:broken laser Printers, be gone!

[LetterJ]

I'm in St. Paul, MN. I do live on a busy street, but I've seen this lots of places.

Funnily enough, I know of someone who was refinishing their kitchen floor and put the dining room set on the front lawn to make room. A couple of hours later someone came to the door and looked kind of sheepish. Apparently, they'd taken the whole set, gotten a few blocks away and thought that maybe there might be a real reason for it all sitting out and turned around to return it. Otherwise, they'd have gone off with it.

Re:What I'm getting rid of...

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

2.42 Gigawatts?! Why, the only thing with that much power is three* bolts of lightning!

* due to inflation

Re:stuff owns us

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally!!! A chance to foist my Symbolics 3675 off on someone!!! Bwahahah....

Purple Indigo2?

[lcsjk]

So that's where it came from!!

Re:broken laser Printers, be gone!

[xScruffx]

It happens every day in some areas. In those areas in which it does happen, we usually don't leave the items in plain sight. Typically speaking, we go to such great lengths as stuffing the items in question into darkly (or lightly, depending on the mood) colored plastic bags of gargantuan proportions. Occasionally, we go one step further and put these bags into large barrels or canisters. It seems like it's the same day every week, but I swear there's this couple of guys that just come by and swoop off with all of the good stuff. The bastards.

xScruffx

Re:broken laser Printers, be gone!

[JaxGator75]

Filthy set of free-weights and a rusty bench were stolen the same night I put the "$50 OBO" sign next to it. It sat there for almost a WEEK before I had that idea...

Re:broken laser Printers, be gone!

[Espectr0]

Put it outside on a table with a hefty pricetag overnight, like a yard sale you didn't clean up.

Huh... no way dude... they would steal my table!

Re:Stop eating microwave food

[xScruffx]

I lost my reeboks, so I'm wearing a pair of old Acer monitors. So much for my deep, dark secret.

xScruffx